CPS forces new evaluation procedures on teachers. CTU asks, “What’s the rush? Where’s the money coming from?” « Fred Klonsky

CPS forces new evaluation procedures on teachers. CTU asks, “What’s the rush? Where’s the money coming from?” « Fred Klonsky:

CPS forces new evaluation procedures on teachers. CTU asks, “What’s the rush? Where’s the money coming from?”

by Fred Klonsky

It all goes back to PERA.
The Performance Evaluation Reform Act, passed by the Illinois General Assembly two years ago.
One of the requirements of PERA was that the CPS and the CTU were given a very narrow window to bargain a new evaluation plan with a teacher-value-added component. If both the CPS board and the CTU could not agree within that narrow time slot, the board could impose its “last best offer.”
The CTU is asking, “What’s the rush.”
There is plenty of evidence that VAM (value-added-measurement) is a flawed system. It’s ranking provision